Secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) is a chronic cholestatic biliary disease, characterized by inflammation, obliterative fibrosis of the bile ducts, stricture formation and progressive ...

in the diagnosis of biliary tree obstruction. METHODS: Fifty-eight consecutive patients underwent MRC (GYROSCAN ACS II 1.5 Tesla, TSE T2 axial/coronal-MIP sequences) for clinical and biochemical ...

Malignant biliary obstruction can be due to direct tumor infiltration, extrinsic compression, adjacent inflammation, desmoplastic reaction from tumors or, more commonly, a combination of the above ...

A scope is guided through your esophagus, stomach and duodenum until it reaches the spot where the ducts of the biliary tree and pancreas open into ... and a stent can be placed to temporarily relieve ...